Australia vs Sri Lanka – Hobart ODI: cricket live scores, updates
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Australia v Sri Lanka BLUNDSTONE ARENA, JANUARY 23, 2013 5th ODI - AUS v SLA |
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| Australia 1st Inn | 5/247 |
| Sri Lanka 1st Inn | 215 All Out |
| Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl | |
| Australia won by 32 runs | |
| Sri Lanka | Over:48.3 RR:4.43 | ||||
| Batsmen | Runs | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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| KMDN Kulasekara | 14 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 127.27 |
| SL Malinga* | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 |
| Australia | |||||
| Bowlers | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| CJ McKay* | 9.3 | 0 | 51 | 2 | 5.37 |
| MA Starc | 9.0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.33 |
| Recent Overs: | ||
| 1 . 1 . . . | | 1 1 1 2 4 1wd 4 | | . . 1wd . | |
| Last Wicket: | Malinga, 2 (c:Johnson b:McKay) |
| Current Partnership: | 15 runs, 10 balls, RR:150.00 |
Australia are in a must-win situation when they take on Sri Lanka in the fifth and final one day international at Bellerive Oval in Hobart on Wednesday.
We’ll bring you the live coverage of the action throughout this fifth ODI at Hobart from 1.50 pm AEST on January 23.
Preview: It is difficult to hypothesise who had the upper hand when the fourth match got rained out, but had the game been reduced to 20 or so overs, Sri Lanka could have had an advantage.
That is evidently why Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene had the right to feel aggrieved with the decision to call off the match, despite what he thought were playable conditions.
Still, Sri Lanka can take heart from two facts. One, for the third game in a row, the bowlers did an impressive job of tying up the Australian batsmen and had it not been for a 40-run stand for the last wicket, the hosts would have barely touched 200.
Secondly and more vitally, Sri Lanka cannot lose the series from here, in what is Jayawardene’s last series as captain.
Everything to play for Australia, however, given the situation they find themselves; one that was quite unimaginable at the end of the first ODI of the series.
Having won the Test series 3-0 and taken a 1-0 lead in the ODIs with a second-string line-up, Australia would have fancied an easy series stroll when the main guys returned to the team.
Instead, three poor batting performances in a row have left Australia in a bit of a soup going into this final ODI and if the conditions at Hobart remain overcast, things may not get any better.
What could add to Australia’s woes is an ankle sprain for Michael Clarke in pre-match training that leaves him in doubt for the game. George Bailey will take over the captaincy in Clarke’s absence and Glenn Maxwell could make it to the playing XI.
The good news from the previous game for the home side is Dave Warner’s batting at the top of the order. Warner’s first half-century since June 2012 was one filled with caution that he mixed with crisp stroke-play and aggressive running between the wickets to push the Aussies early.
Nuwan Kulasekara continued to remain the Australian batting bugbear though. After his five-wicket haul in the third ODI, Kulasekara followed it with figures of 3/30 in his 10 overs and was ably supported by Lasith Malinga (2/33 in 10).
As suspected earlier, Malinga’s potency increases manifold when someone at the other end is making life difficult for the batsmen and Australia will now need to come up with a tactic to counter the pair.
We will bring you the live coverage throughout the game from Hobart and hope to receive your opinions as the action unfolds.
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10:07am
Jason said | 10:07am | Report comment
Did James Brayshaw really wish Henriques good luck for the T20s?
(Henriques not being in the T20 squad of course).
12:09pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 12:09pm | Report comment
Brayshaw really is a muppet. All in all it really was a low water mark for the Ch 9 commentary team that game. They seemed determined to gibber endlessly about anything other than the game itself.
11:12pm
Peter said | 11:12pm | Report comment
Great win by the boys and well done Hughes, fantastic batting. I was critical that selectors didn’t take Khawaja for Clarke but Hughes ensured that the lack of top order batsman wasn’t exposed, may have been a different scenario if we were chasing. I think Mahela will be regretting not batting first as a chase against the Sri Lankan spinners would have been very tough. Wasted opportunities again for Bailey and Hussey as today was the day to get runs. Maxwell still not establishing himself with bat or ball. Doherty bowled really well and may well have booked a flight to India with Beer out injured. Great work boys.
10:28pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:28pm | Report comment
That is that then, that’s the end of the ODI series, shared 2-2. It will now be down to the first of two T20Is at Sydney on Australia Day on January 26.
Ciao for now!
10:26pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:26pm | Report comment
It was a slower one and Malinga hangs his bat out, gets a tap on it and it flies to backward point for Johnson to swoop on it.
Sri Lanka tried to make a match out of it but the target of 248 was too much to get on this track, which showed bit of tackiness…the ball wasn’t coming on to the bat and the slowness did not help either.
Doherty was the star in the middle overs, taking three for 21 in his eight overs. Moises Henriques also chipped in with figures of 3/32 as nobody barring Angelo Mathews got going for Sri Lanka.
10:23pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:23pm | Report comment
Good catch by Johnson to level the series. Sri Lanka have been bowled out for 215.
10:20pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:20pm | Report comment
And Starc has been sent to the fine-leg boundary yet again by Kulasekara! Swinging it away to the leg-side…
…34 required from 2 with a wicket standing.
10:20pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:20pm | Report comment
Couple of runs to the leg-side before smashing it away over extra-cover, up and over the field for a four.
They aren’t going down without a fight but it’s almost all over…38 needed off 13.
10:16pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:16pm | Report comment
Bouncer that Malinga was trying to pull before wanting to evade it. Hits Malinga flush on his gloves and he seems to be in a lot of pain and there is a physio out there checking on him.
10:11pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:11pm | Report comment
Gone now, nine down, McKay has his first!
It was a slog alright and a decent choice of shot. Except that it does not hit the middle and goes straight to the deep square-leg fielder.
9/200 in the 47th over.
10:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:10pm | Report comment
They still need 50 to win from the last four overs, the next of which will be bowled by McKay.
10:05pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:05pm | Report comment
Slower one from Henriques sees the end of Perera now, the game’s there for Australia to take here.
He was going for a wild slog and completely missed it there…was way too early with that stroke and the stumps are rattled.
8/195 in 45.1
10:02pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:02pm | Report comment
Perera is keeping the fight alive as he smokes it over mid-wicket. The ball bounces once before going into the fence, but not before Warner runs across from long-on and attempt a diving catch…does not get his hand to it.
7/192
9:58pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:58pm | Report comment
And now Mathews goes. Gone caught!
That was shorter from Johnson and Mathews goes for his favourite slog-pull…only this time it hits his bat hard and spoons up for the back-pedalling mid-on to take a simple catch.
7/187 in 44.1
9:58pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:58pm | Report comment
61 needed from six overs now for Sri Lanka.
Thisara Perera joins Mathews.
9:55pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:55pm | Report comment
Bowled him! Henriques has got rid of Mendis!
Yorker length ball from the Portuguese born all-rounder and Mathews fails to get anything under it, it’s snuck through.
6/187 in 43.4.
9:51pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:51pm | Report comment
Five balls, two runs. And then Mendis decides he has had enough of those pokey paddles and goes down the ground. Takes it on the full and smashes it away for a six over the bowler’s head.
Eight off that over reduces the required runs to 66. Off seven overs.
9:49pm
Sunil said | 9:49pm | Report comment
Red kev stj Lanka are back but i think we can still win, just need to get Matthews out
9:51pm
Red Kev said | 9:51pm | Report comment
Yeah Mathews trying to do a Dhoni … I just thought he was being soft
9:52pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:52pm | Report comment
Mathews and Malinga had won a game from a more precarious situation their last series in Australia before the WC. He has often been under-rated but done well in those conditions.
9:57pm
Sunil said | 9:57pm | Report comment
Got him, well done moses
9:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:49pm | Report comment
Xavier Doherty comes on now. His first seven overs cost him 13.
Couple of dots to begin.
9:47pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:47pm | Report comment
Couple of boundaries in the same over from Johnson for Mathews! Suddenly we do have a contest, despite the required-rate being obviously at 9.25.
5/174 in 42
9:47pm
Red Kev said | 9:47pm | Report comment
Mathews has hit 4 boundaries to deep midwicket in the last three overs … why isn’t there a man in the deep there?
9:48pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:48pm | Report comment
Probably want him to get out slogging…but yep, can easily plug that gap instead.
9:52pm
Red Kev said | 9:52pm | Report comment
I would have switched to defense at 10 an over, the wicket would be nice but restricting them to singles will do it.
9:41pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:41pm | Report comment
Appeal for an lbw and given not-out, called for DRS.
Nope, not-out it remains. It was an in-swinging full-toss and hits his pads, flicks his pads down to fine-leg and it was missing the stumps.
9:40pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:40pm | Report comment
There was a steady climb in the required-rate but now it has stabilised at around nine and a half an over.
87 needed from nine overs.
9:37pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:37pm | Report comment
Too many of the slower ones and Mathews reads it well, slogs it over mid-wicket for another four.
Half-century for Mathews off 68 balls, which is not bad considering how slowly he had started.
5/157 in the 41st
9:36pm
Red Kev said | 9:36pm | Report comment
So should we be concerned that Australia plays better without Clarke?
9:34pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:34pm | Report comment
End of the Batting PP overs and Sri Lanka now need 97 from their last 10 overs.
Johnson conceded 11 off that last over. Sri Lanka need many more of them.
9:33pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:33pm | Report comment
And would you believe it…they have got more than one boundary this over.
Shorter from Johnson and Mathews swivels around to pull it through mid-wicket for the second one.
5/151 in 40
9:32pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:32pm | Report comment
Smacked over mid-on for a four, slogged by Jeevan M. And tries to hook it away again, and falls safely at square-leg for a single.
9:29pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:29pm | Report comment
The story continues…a four early in the over but nothing thereafter.
108 needed from the last 11.
9:27pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:27pm | Report comment
Almost a wicket, in the end, it turns out to be a four! Slower from McKay and Mathews goes for a slog, gets an outside edge and despite Wade’s dive towards the first slip, it runs away to the fine third-man for a four.
5/138 in the 39th
9:26pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:26pm | Report comment
There has been a boundary in each of the last three overs but not much to follow for Sri Lanka. Clint McKay returns to the attack.
9:22pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:22pm | Report comment
Round the stumps from Johnson and thumped over the mid-off fielder for a four!
Sri Lanka are beginning to show show some fight through Mathews but they need many more of these.
5/130 in 37.2
9:19pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:19pm | Report comment
And Jeevan M gets a four off Henriques next over. Slower one, off-cutter but shorter and Jeevan goes for the pull and rushes away for a four to fine-leg.
Still only 12 off the last couple of overs.
9:14pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:14pm | Report comment
A quick single attempted and could have resulted in a run-out. Tapped to the leg side, Mendis wanted a single and he came dashing but Warner did well to field and throw at the non-striker’s stumps, missing them by inches.
Had he hit, would have been out.
5/119 in 36
9:11pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:11pm | Report comment
A shot in anger from Mathews! Up and over the extra-cover and taking advantage of the Powerplay overs, gets it to the fence.
5/117 in the 36th
9:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:10pm | Report comment
And look what we have here now. A maiden over from Henriques. The required-rate has crept up to 9, which by itself isn’t a lot in this day and age. But with half the side gone, it does not look too easy.
Batting Powerplay now and they need to vroom from here, do the Sri Lankans.
9:06pm
Garry said | 9:06pm | Report comment
Red sky at night is a shepherd’s delight … fine weather tomorrow
Red sky in the morning is a shepherd’s warning – it’s going to rain
(The commentators were wondering what the saying meant)
9:06pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:06pm | Report comment
Sri Lanka have almost dozed off. Getting runs off these medium pacers is becoming close to improbable for them, with only one coming off the Johnson over.
This follows a couple from each of the last two overs.
5/113 in 34.
8:58pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:58pm | Report comment
Only a couple of runs from Johnson’s sixth. He has now figures of 1/16 in his six overs.
Mathews has been there for 43 balls and scored 21. He can go berserk later but that later needs to be now.
5/111 in 32.
8:53pm
Red Kev said | 8:53pm | Report comment
I think this is a real shame as Sri Lanka have played well during the series, but it does bring into question if they would have been able to chase 222 the other night.
I dislike that they seem to capitulate so easily.
8:52pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:52pm | Report comment
And now Perera’s gone to Johnson!
That is the fifth wicket down as Perera goes down trying to flick it away. A leading edge goes his in the air and Warner takes a simple catch at mid-wicket.
The rate’s up to almost 7.5 and with top half of their side gone, it can never be easy.
Jeevan Mendis comes in.
8:47pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:47pm | Report comment
Sri Lanka have scored only 27 in their last 10 overs. Which is an improvement over what they did over the previous 10 – only 26!
4/103 in 30
8:50pm
Red Kev said | 8:50pm | Report comment
Wow, once you get past Dilshan, Jayawardene and Sangakkara Sri Lanka just have nothing.
8:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:46pm | Report comment
Attempts a bouncer but the ball does not rise up too much or as quickly as Mathews would have liked. Hits hit glove and then smacks his helmet back.
4/102 in the 30th
8:43pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:43pm | Report comment
And now another change as Starc gives way to Johnson. A single first ball brings Sri Lanka their 100.
Taken them 29.1 overs to get there.
8:40pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:40pm | Report comment
First boundary in more than 100 balls and it Perera who smokes it to the right of the diving mid-wicket fielder. It was a slog alright but they need a few of those with the required-rate having increased to seven an over.
4/97
8:39pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:39pm | Report comment
And interestingly, it is only a couple of overs that Maxwell gets before Henriques comes back.
8:37pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:37pm | Report comment
Sri Lanka need to start scoring against Maxwell for starters. He has conceded only six in his first couple but Sri Lanka will need to take more chances off him.
Starc’s stifling them from the other end, having conceded only three in his last two overs.
4/92 in 28
8:29pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:29pm | Report comment
Nothing happening for Sri Lanka. After Maxwell rushes through his first over, conceding two, Starc gets one to scoot through the batsman and another that gets an inside to his pads.
4/86 in the 26th
8:23pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:23pm | Report comment
Only three from the Starc over and it is a double-change in the bowling as Glenn Maxwell takes over from Doherty.
This will be an interesting spell for Maxwell, who has generally had nothing to do this whole series.
4/84 in the 25th
8:17pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:17pm | Report comment
Change in bowling from Henriques’ end, who has sent down four overs for 11.
Mitchell Starc has been called on.
8:12pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:12pm | Report comment
Suddenly, run-making’s getting stiffer. Full-toss round the stumps and Perera can only tap it to short mid-wicket.
Maxwell dives and fields and then throws it back one-handed, hits the stumps at the striker’s end. Well done!
4/78 in 22.
8:09pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:09pm | Report comment
One keeper replaced by another. Chandimal goes and Kushal Perera comes in at six.
Sri Lanka are reeling at this this stage.
4/77 in 21
8:06pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:06pm | Report comment
A very poor shot sees the end of Chandimal!
From round the stumps, it was angling into the batsman, who tries to flick it to the leg-side. It turns away a little and sneaks through the defences, and X has his third wicket!
3/11 in the sixth over for Doherty.
4/77 in the 21st.
8:04pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:04pm | Report comment
And Sri Lanka continue to struggle with their timing. Nothing coming on to the bat and even when Henriques pitches one short, Chandimal’s pull shot takes an inside edge on to his pads.
3/76 in 20.
8:03pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:03pm | Report comment
Only three singles in the Doherty over. At the other end, Henriques will be happy to have made his first notable contribution in ODI cricket since his wicket on debut in 2009!
3/75 in the 20th over.
7:54pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:54pm | Report comment
Gone, Dilshan’s torture’s ended.
He batted for 47 balls to make his 19 before trying to guide Moises Henriques to third-man and gets an edge to the keeper. Wade takes a good low catch in front and Sri Lanka have lost their third.
3/71 in 17.3
8:06pm
Red Kev said | 8:06pm | Report comment
Nice to see one of our allrounders contributing
8:08pm
boes said | 8:08pm | Report comment
Red Kev do you rate Moises, at least as a short form player?
8:41pm
Red Kev said | 8:41pm | Report comment
Haven’t seen much of him, I think Christian is better, but he’s okay and while I don’t agree with allrounders in test sides just for the sake of it, in ODIs and T20s they are needed. Mitch Marsh will I think be better than both in three years time.
I’ll tell you who I don’t rate – Maxwell. Not as a.batsman, not as a bowler, not as a thinking cricketer. He can field, but that’s it. His presence in a national team makes me sick.
9:47pm
Sunil said | 9:47pm | Report comment
Maxwell can’t bowl can’t bat but he can field do perhaps we should take him for his fielding, khawaja and Doolan are the best batsman for india in particular khawaja
11:49pm
Jake said | 11:49pm | Report comment
You just said Ferguson was with Khawaja as our 2 best options, now it’s changed too Doolan. Will it change again to Burns by the morning??
7:54pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:54pm | Report comment
Dilshan’s stuck in a rut. 45 balls for his 17. And he cannot even try and smack them now given their quick loss of a couple of wickets.
Doherty concedes only a single in his previous over, 2/7 from four.
7:51pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:51pm | Report comment
Six in the Henriques over including a boundary by CHandimal through third-man. Doherty continues from the other end.
Unless Sri Lanka run across quickly and get that odd boundary, the required-rate of 5.3 will only climb up.
7:47pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:47pm | Report comment
Change in bowling and Moises Henriques gets his chance now.
7:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:46pm | Report comment
This is excellent stuff from Doherty…getting his pace just right and extracting bit of turn from the pitch.
2/62 in 15 with Doherty’s figures reading 2/6 in 3.
7:41pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:41pm | Report comment
Two for Doherty and Thirimanne goes now!
He wasn’t getting too much off the quick bowlers and he tries to take on Doherty. Unfortunately it is timed well but neither is it in the gap nor has too much power, just a chip to wide long-on. David Hussey runs to his left and grabs a single catch.
Two down for 62 in the 15th.
7:40pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 7:40pm | Report comment
James Brayshaw has just announced that the temperature drops in Hobart at night. It appeared to take him by surprise…
7:54pm
boes said | 7:54pm | Report comment
It must be a phenomenon unique to Hobart.
7:59pm
Atawhai Drive said | 7:59pm | Report comment
Profound fellow, that Brayshaw.
9:51pm
Sunil said | 9:51pm | Report comment
James Bradshaw loves Glenn maxwell. He is always talking him up
7:38pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:38pm | Report comment
Shreds coming off the ball and the umpire has to use his tool kit to snip a few pieces away.
The ball’s dying before getting to the keeper and Australia will look to keep taking pace off.
1/61 in 13.4
7:32pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:32pm | Report comment
Lahiru Thirimanne, century-scorer in the second ODI, at three.
7:30pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:30pm | Report comment
And MJ’s gone against the run of play!
He had been timing them rather well and suddenly, he hits it straight to mid-on.
It was tossed up and MJ wanted to play it over the in-field, inside out. Instead, it’s hit the inside edge and it pops up straight to mid-on where Starc takes a few steps back to pouch a simple catch.
1/57 in 12.1
7:33pm
Red Kev said | 7:33pm | Report comment
Australia needed that, Jayawardene looked in very good touch, but he makes a mistake and gets out.
7:28pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:28pm | Report comment
A look at the ball and it already looks in a bad shape. That is one of the two new balls on show as the new regulations specify.
0/55 in the 12th.
Dilshan’s on 14 from 33 while MJ’s batting on 38 in even time.
7:22pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:22pm | Report comment
And as soon as the Batting PP is done, it is the turn of spin. Xavier Doherty comes on to look to try using the slowness of the pitch.
0/50 in 10.
7:21pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:21pm | Report comment
Sri Lanka are getting them away with ease…even with the PP overs, they are comfortably getting three-four singles each over.
Five off the Johnson over as Sri Lankabring up their 50 without loss in 10 overs.
7:16pm
Matt said | 7:16pm | Report comment
Anyone else watching this on Cricket Live? My screen is flickering every now and then with random colours, anyone elses???
7:15pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:15pm | Report comment
The class and the touch! A ball pushed down on his pads, length ball too and MJ clips it just over the short fine-leg for a four.
0/45 in the ninth.
7:12pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:12pm | Report comment
Johnson’s bowling them cross seam too but well within the stumps. Dilshan’s trying his best to hit them hard and not getting them anywhere.
MJ’s timing them well at the other end.
0/38 in 8.
7:08pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:08pm | Report comment
Yep, Starc was having trouble with his action and probably even the grip, and he has been replaced by Johnson.
MJ gets a single to third-man off the very first ball.
0/38 in 7.1
7:07pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:07pm | Report comment
Three singles off the McKay over stalls the scoring for a little while. Won’t be long before we see the other Mitch take on the bowling.
7:02pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 7:02pm | Report comment
Very full but this is outside the off stump for Jayawardene. Misses his line horribly and driven away to the cover boundary.
It is a no-ball too but MJ fails to get anything worthy off it.
0/34 in the 6th.
6:57pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:57pm | Report comment
The square-leg is up inside the circle and MJ gets a full ball on his pads and that has been plundered over the in-field for a four.
And then he crashes one through the covers as well…four more to MJ! Three boundaries in that over to get the Sri Lankans away.
0/25 in 5.
7:00pm
Red Kev said | 7:00pm | Report comment
That drive was probably the most beautiful shot that’s been hit by anyone all series.
6:56pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:56pm | Report comment
The line’s on his pads and MJ swivels around to send it down to a very fine fine-leg fence for a four!
0/17 in the fifth.
6:54pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:54pm | Report comment
This is good planning and execution from Starc. All deliveries on the middle and length line and short of a good length.
There is no room for Dilshan to work his booming cover drives and is getting none.
0/13 in 4.
6:52pm
Garcia said | 6:52pm | Report comment
Ian Healy and Michael Slater =
6:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:49pm | Report comment
Three singles in the McKay over.
0/11 in 3.
6:44pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:44pm | Report comment
Dilshan gets a single before MJ times it over mid-on for the first four of the innings. It was on a length and MJ gave it a nice tap over the in-field.
Beaten outside the off stump next ball, ball sent down at 150 km/hr…did not seem that quick.
0/8 in 2.
6:43pm
Red Kev said | 6:43pm | Report comment
The speedo is reading Starc at 145-150 all over … I don’t believe that.
6:42pm
Atawhai Drive said | 6:42pm | Report comment
Forced to watch Nein with their commentary, rather than ABC Radio, in the meantime. High gibber factor among commentators already, something to do with salmon.
Back to ABC Radio soon, thank God.
7:38pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 7:38pm | Report comment
Felt sorry for Richie getting caught in the middle of that drivel. It was so bad the great man was forced to mumble something about players wearing caps at night just to change the subject.
8:02pm
Atawhai Drive said | 8:02pm | Report comment
It really is time for Richie to pull the pin. Not because he’s past it, necessarily, but because it is shameful for him to be dragged down into the commercial sewer of Nein’s disgraceful excuse for television coverage.
6:41pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:41pm | Report comment
Starc’s done a Harmison. A Test match wide to begin things, outside the off-stump.
6:43pm
Jason said | 6:43pm | Report comment
His 5th ball clocked 149.1km/h!
6:50pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:50pm | Report comment
Which is bit of a surprise, because he does not seem that pacy. Not all balls for sure.
6:40pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:40pm | Report comment
That’s the only couple in that over. Dilshan gets strike now and a full-sleeved Mitchell Starc will be up against him.
Two slips too!
6:38pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:38pm | Report comment
McKay pitches it up to the bat and Jayawardene has his bat and pad together and makes a cautious push back…beats the in-field for a couple of runs.
0/2 in 0.4
6:36pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 6:36pm | Report comment
Back on after the break and T Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene will open for Sri Lanka. Clint Mckay gets the first of those two new balls and gets his first to swing away.
0/0 on 0.1
6:03pm
aggregated drupe said | 6:03pm | Report comment
good total lets hope we can bowl well now. I am looking at starc and mckay to get the job done
6:27pm
Jason said | 6:27pm | Report comment
I reckon McKay might go alright on this pitch.
5:57pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:57pm | Report comment
It is a good total in the end, 5/247 in 50 overs thanks to Phil Hughes’ unbeaten century and Sri Lanka will need to do some chasing on what is not a very batting-conducive track. A few balls were stopping and coming on to the bat, and that brought about a cautious Australian batting side in the first half of the innings.
David Hussey and Hughes added 98 at almost a run-a-ball and that brought the Aussies back into the game after that slow start. Australia scored 94 in the first half of the innings and 153 in their next 25 overs.
Malinga ended with 1/49 while Herath had 0/34 from their respective 10 overs. Surprised that Dilshan did not bowl more than his seven overs of which there were three maidens! A total of 7 maidens in the innings.
Back in 35 minutes with the chase.
5:52pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:52pm | Report comment
Single off the last ball to Henriques gets Australia to 5/247 in their 50 overs.
Hughes remains unbeaten on 138.
5:52pm
Peter said | 5:52pm | Report comment
Looking fwd to the chase, we have wasted a spot with Maxwell in there. Dissapointing to see Bailey and D Huss not use their opportunities, you would think Khawaja is firming up as favorite now for the Indian tour. Starc will be the key tonight, if he gets going then we will win.
6:59pm
Sunil said | 6:59pm | Report comment
Yes wasted opportunities for maxwell and David hussey, proves to me that khawaja and Ferguson will be the guys to take to India
5:52pm
Red Kev said | 5:52pm | Report comment
Getting to 247 after that start is a good effort, and pretty much all on the back of Phil Hughes, only Hussey offered any support.
I think Sri Lanka will find that a difficult total to chase.
5:51pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:51pm | Report comment
And whoa, almost a Hussey-like dismissal again! He goes down the track and wants to tap it, and is running even before the has hit the ball, goes back to the bowler whose throw misses the stumps.
Smashes one over square-leg for a four next ball! It was an attempted yorker and turned into a full-toss.
5:50pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:50pm | Report comment
A brace and a single brings Hughes to strike. Four balls remaining.
5:48pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:48pm | Report comment
Right then, Malinga has bowled an excellent 49th over, conceding only five singles off it.
Difficult to hit him out, especially when you are new to the crease. Even Hughes hasn’t been able to take him on.
5/236 with one over to go.
5:44pm
langou said | 5:44pm | Report comment
Thank Suneer for you coverage all summer. And to Rob from Brumby I agree with what you have been saying. Australian cricket fans are terrible for the way they dg the boot into their own team at just the slightest drop in form
5:57pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:57pm | Report comment
My pleasure langou
5:42pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:42pm | Report comment
Hammered for a boundary and Tubby Taylor calls it a “flat four!” Fours are usually flat but what he meant was that it almost went for a flat six.
Crunches the next one through third-man for another boundary!
5/230 in the 48th
5:40pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:40pm | Report comment
Moises Henriques comes in at seven. They will need to take on likes of Mathews and Kulasekara from the other end, beating Malinga at his game is always going to be tough.
5:39pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:39pm | Report comment
Maxwell was trying his best to get on but this time he slices a length ball and to the man in the covers. He wanted to play it over that fielder, but got a lot of height on that one, easy catch spooned to Thirimanne.
5/218 in 47.
Excellent over in the end from Malinga, who have four off the first ball and 2 off the next five.
5:39pm
Red Kev said | 5:39pm | Report comment
Maxwell holes out for 9 off 9 and the TV commentators are cheerleading for him – you’d think it was the best innings in history if you couldn’t see it. Disgraceful.
“That’s the job of a middle order batsman” from James Brayshaw.
No it isn’t. He came in with 7 odd overs left and a guy at the other end with a hundred – his job was to hit singles and get Hughes on strike.
5:43pm
boes said | 5:43pm | Report comment
So it wasn’t a polished 9 then.
5:46pm
Red Kev said | 5:46pm | Report comment
Henriques has hit a polished 4 so far – bat on ball, get a single, get Hughes on strike.
5:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:49pm | Report comment
This is not too different from Mickey Arthur’s assessment of Rob Quiney’s single digit innings earlier this summer.
5:37pm
Jayden said | 5:37pm | Report comment
Bring starc in now?
5:35pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:35pm | Report comment
Drilled through the covers for a four!
Maxwell goes down the track and takes it on full, smashes it through extra-cover and to the fence.
Beaten off a slower one next ball.
4/216 in 46.2
5:31pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:31pm | Report comment
Dropped catch! But saves a four!
Slower ball and well read by Maxwell, who goes on to hit it hard and looks like it would go over mid-on. Captain Jayawardene jumps up high but does not get both his hands on it and spills it. Could have well gone to the fence had he not got his jump right.
4/212 in 46.
5:30pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:30pm | Report comment
Slammed over the mid-wicket stands for a six!
That was right in his curve from Kula and Hughes gives it a whack over mid-wicket…it sails over, hits the roof and it bounces back.
4/207 in 45.2
5:29pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:29pm | Report comment
Maxwell has come out with the intention to take on Malinga and is befuddled by a very slow ball!
He was looking to clear his foot and thump it away and the ball did not arrive even by the time the shot was finished. Top-edge but lands in a no-man’s land on the leg-side.
Five off the Malinga over.
4/200 in 45.
5:28pm
Red Kev said | 5:28pm | Report comment
Maxwell showing us his ineptitude skying a ball he has no clue about from Malinga – unfortunately for Sri Lanka there’s no fielder there and the keeper can’t make it in time.
5:35pm
Matt F said | 5:35pm | Report comment
It’s a little embarrassing given they were Stars team mates. Surely he would have gained some idea during net sessions? Then again Hussey hasn’t looked comfortable against him either so maybe Malinga worked them out instead?
5:40pm
Red Kev said | 5:40pm | Report comment
I think Malinga is just a class bowler and Maxwell is at best a grade-level slogger.
5:42pm
Matt F said | 5:42pm | Report comment
Very hard to argue with that
5:26pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:26pm | Report comment
Two slower balls, two attempted aggressive shots, two misses, two dots.
4/195 in 44.2
5:24pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:24pm | Report comment
Glenn Maxwell gets the number six spot for Australia. Malinga takes on the bowling, to bowl the 45th.
5:22pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:22pm | Report comment
Gone, silly run-out!
For once it is not Hughes fault! Hussey cranks out a yorker and hits it back to the bowler who jumps up and fields on his right. For some reason, Hussey runs with his shot and the by the time he realises he shouldn’t have done that, the bowler has already thrown the stumps down at the striker’s end.
Hussey run-out for 34 from 39 balls.
4/195 in 44.
5:19pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:19pm | Report comment
Second century for Hughes!
Cuts away hard and through the point fielder…for the second time it is misfielded and seeps through to the fence.
What is also the second, is his 100 in this format of the game, after having got to one on debut in the first ODI of this series. He followed it up three successive scores of single-digits and was demoted to number three today. And he has done well to respond with a well-crafted ton.
3/194 in 43.4
5:20pm
Red Kev said | 5:20pm | Report comment
So Hughes has a century on debut – followed by three single digit scores – followed by another century. He’s starting to look like Marcus North.
5:23pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 5:23pm | Report comment
Ah, come on, RK, now you’re just sulking. We needed that century today. Thank god the bails didn’t come off earlier!
5:26pm
Red Kev said | 5:26pm | Report comment
No, you’re just being [a tool] deliberately annoying and combative. If you bother to look down the thread you’ll see I said that Hughes would capitalise on the life he was given. Good on him for that.
However consistency is more important than feast or famine in building a cricket team. He has two centuries so he’ll get more chances, but one digit or three digits is not a good return from any player.
6:00pm
The Bush said | 6:00pm | Report comment
You are being a little harsh on a young guy in a team that is struggling. If you take out Hughes’ batting in this series it would be a 4-0 whitewash (I suppose it could still be 3-1) – the entire team has been pathetic…
6:38pm
Jason said | 6:38pm | Report comment
If Mike Hussey had played instead of Hughes it have been 4-0.
11:54pm
Jake said | 11:54pm | Report comment
Surely you can’t bag a player for “failing” with 2 hundreds in 5 games??? Give him a break.
5:31pm
Matt F said | 5:31pm | Report comment
A little early to be saying things like that Kev! You’re right that he’ll need to find some more consistency soon but 2 hundreds in 5 innings is a significantly better conversion rate than North ever had. Given the format though you’d probably trade one of those centuries for two 50′s, or even three 30′s to provide a more stable platform at the top
7:12pm
Red Kev said | 7:12pm | Report comment
Actually Marcus North did nearly exactly that in the 2009 Ashes:
125*, DNB, 0, 6, 12, 96, 110, DNB, 8, 10
The rest of your post is exactly my point however, Hughes has scored 257 runs in 5 innings, I would much rather have seen scores of 50, 51, 52, 52, 52 than 112, 3, 3, 1, 138*
5:18pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:18pm | Report comment
Perera replaces Kulasekara.
5:18pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:18pm | Report comment
Hussey has got himself to 34 from 38. Some of the strokes he has played are ones he’s tried to push hard but not got the timing right. Still being able to collect the singles and get his score moving.
Hughes gets a single off the last ball of the Mathews over to get to 97 and Australia move on to 3/186 in 43.
5:16pm
Matt said | 5:16pm | Report comment
Anyone else watching this on Cricket Live? My screen is flickering every now and then with random colours, anyone elses??
5:14pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:14pm | Report comment
This has been built up very well. It is a matter of getting the final flourish.
Hughes, despite being in the 90s, isn’t shy of going after the bowling. Almost threads one through the leg-side off Mathews.
3/182 in 42.2
5:13pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:13pm | Report comment
Both batsmen are looking to go after Kula but they are finding it difficult to hit out. He is changing the pace around well here.
He concedes five from his eighth over and that is 14 from the last three overs.
3/180 in 42.
5:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:10pm | Report comment
Much better from Mathews this time. Four singles there.
3/176 in 41
5:08pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:08pm | Report comment
Angelo Mathews has been brought back into the attack. He conceded 23 in his first four.
5:05pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:05pm | Report comment
Kulasekara does well to restrict the two batsmen to five singles off the 40th over of the innings. Australia still looking pretty at this stage at 3/172 in 40.
The fourth wicket stand is worth 75 in 13.2 overs and to be frank, it has come out of nowhere…at one stage it looked like another collapse was in the offing.
Another ODI on at Mohali, where India have won the toss and decided to field first against England. The temperature in that part of the world is 6 degrees celcius. Whoa!
5:00pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 5:00pm | Report comment
Nuwan Kulasekara comes back on to bowl the last Batting PP over. They will take Kula on here is my guess.
4:59pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:59pm | Report comment
A very good over for Australia, that sees Malinga concede 13 off it. If this is not controlled soon enough, things could go pear-shaped for the tourists.
3/167 in 39. Hughes has got himself into the 80s, batting on 87
4:55pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:55pm | Report comment
full-toss and crunched through the covers for a four, followed by a boundary through mid-wicket! Malinga being hit here…
After that slow start, Hughes has begun to open up and how!
4:53pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:53pm | Report comment
It is Powerplay overs, the batsmen are well settled and yet, the batsmen are struggling to get Herath away. Three singles off herath’s last over.
0/33 in his 10 overs…a very good spell of bowling from Herath.
3/154 in 38.
4:50pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:50pm | Report comment
That boundary for Hughes brought the 50-run stand for the fourth wicket. Off 58 balls only.
3/151 in 37 overs. Any guesses on how much can Australia get from here? I reckon 250 will be good.
4:48pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:48pm | Report comment
Hughes has now got his mojo back…he has taken his time but gets one in his favourite area outside the off. The length was good too and he has murdered it through Dilshan’s legs for a four!
Poor fielding but that was hit pretty hard too!
3/148 in 36.2
4:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:46pm | Report comment
Four singles off the Herath over. Malinga will test the pair with his sixth over now.
3/143 in 36.
4:42pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:42pm | Report comment
Back on from drinks…and Herath will continue bowling in the Powerplay overs. Some confidence.
0/27 in his eight.
4:39pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:39pm | Report comment
It looked to be a decent over from Perera with three singles from the first five balls. And then Hussey punches one down the ground and beats the in-field easily. Four for Hussey to bring up drinks as Australia go up to 3/139 in 35.
Batting Powerplay to come up next.
4:35pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:35pm | Report comment
Hughes has been going down the track to Herath but was beaten most times. This one, he gets it off the middle and creams it through extra-cover and gets it to the fence!
He’s got his skating shoes on now and he’s looking confident doing that too.
65 from 102 balls as Australia have almost nudged towards four an over at 3/132 in 34.
4:31pm
Aduardo said | 4:31pm | Report comment
Hussey, Maxwell & Henriques would need to do well today to maintain a place in future ODI squads you would think……
4:30pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:30pm | Report comment
Runs are beginning to flow despite the wicket of Bailey. They have scored 25 in the last five odd overs.
4:32pm
Aduardo said | 4:32pm | Report comment
Maybe its because of the wicket of Bailey..!!
4:24pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:24pm | Report comment
The number of leading edges that Malinga has managed to elicit from Hughes is rapidly rising. Not getting enough to scoop it to any fielder in the covers.
Four off the Malinga over.
3/115 in 31.
4:21pm
Johnno said | 4:21pm | Report comment
NZ win last night , showed once agin why they have a good future in ODI and T20 cricket, but are a real worry in test cricket.
4:36pm
Atawhai Drive said | 4:36pm | Report comment
John Buchanan has said that the priority for NZ cricket is ODIs up to the 2015 World Cup.
4:21pm
Matt said | 4:21pm | Report comment
Oh god, 3 allrounders: Maxwell, Henriques and Johnson. Extremely hopeful they can come up with anything.
4:20pm
langou said | 4:20pm | Report comment
At work so not watching but I think what they are doing could work okay. Leave wickets in hand and go the tonk at the end. The way one –dayers traditionally were played.
4:23pm
Aduardo said | 4:23pm | Report comment
I hope you are right langou. The only problem is that traditionally a score of 200 – 220 was considered acceptable. I would have thought we would want at least 250?
4:26pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:26pm | Report comment
The difference these days is that there are two new balls being used, which tilts the balance in favour of the bowlers a little bit. Not as easy to score runs unless it is a very flat wicket.
4:20pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:20pm | Report comment
Finally, Hughes jumps down the track and slapped through extra-cover for a four! Some respite for him, especially against Herath, who had bowled his five overs for eight runs before that.
That also brings up his 50 to follow his century first match and seven runs in the next three!
3/111 in 30.
4:16pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:16pm | Report comment
Malinga’s spearing them in well and Hughes is just about keeping ‘em out.
3/103 in 29.
4:16pm
dcnz said | 4:16pm | Report comment
In other news, the Black Caps beat the Proteas last night to win the ODI series…
Sorry for butting in, but its a while since we had such a win!
4:17pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:17pm | Report comment
Yep dcnz, bit like how it is this tour…the underdogs lose all the Test matches before coming back well in the ODIs.
4:12pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:12pm | Report comment
Malinga comes on and is immediately flicked away to deep square-leg for three by Hussey.
100 comes up from 28.1.
Malinga and Hussey played together for the Melbourne Stars this BBL.
4:11pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:11pm | Report comment
It has become a habit this game…bowling maidens at will. Herath sends down his second and the seventh of the innings.
3/97 in 27.
Herath’s bowled five overs for eight.
4:10pm
Aduardo said | 4:10pm | Report comment
I don’t have access to a television at the moment….but I am staggered to see how slow the scoring is going, particularly from Captain George. Can someone enlighten me as to why the scoring is so slow?
4:11pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 4:11pm | Report comment
In a nutshell: timid batting.
4:13pm
Aduardo said | 4:13pm | Report comment
Thanks Rob – I see that Captain George has sponged a bunch of deliveries and then got out. Who is going to be our big hitter down the order? Maxwell?
4:15pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 4:15pm | Report comment
And an inability to keep the singles flowing. These batsmen seem to think it’s either block for no run or go for a boundary.
4:12pm
Behold said | 4:12pm | Report comment
lower order packed with t20 batsmen, trying to turn the last 15 into a slogathon by keeping wickets in hand.
4:08pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:08pm | Report comment
David Hussey flashes at the first ball he faces outside the off-stump and misses. Aggression is good, but a measure of the pitch first-up will be better.
3/97 in 27.
4:05pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:05pm | Report comment
Gone, caught and bowled!
Almost against the run of play that. It was on a good length and Bailey wanted to drive it down the track but did not get it off the middle. Flies back to the bowler, Perera, who takes a good low catch on his follow-through to send back the captain.
Just when they had rebuilt, Bailey’s gone for 17 off 43 balls.
3/97 in 26.4
4:08pm
Red Kev said | 4:08pm | Report comment
Comic timing from Ed Cowan on the radio talking up George Bailey as an international batsman “taking his opportunity in the Australian middle order with both hands” and the very next ball he is out caught and bowled for 17 off 43.
4:04pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 4:04pm | Report comment
Herath’s holding them back rather well but the runs are leaking from the other end.
After Mathews conceded 10 off his last over that spell, Perera has conceded 16 off two. So that’s 26 last three overs.
2/96 in the 27th
3:59pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:59pm | Report comment
After Herath concedes three in his third over, Hughes continues to target Perera. Drills through extra-cover for a four…
…they run-rates moving up towards four.
Perera, it must be said, has got a couple of them to move back into the left-hander.
2/94 in the 25th
3:52pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:52pm | Report comment
Poor stuff from Perera, bowls it wide down the leg-side to Hughes in a bid to cramp him for room.
The batsman gets just a little bat on it and it runs away to the fine-leg fence for a four!
Another one down the leg-stump which is left alone and fumble by the keeper gives them a wide and three (4 wides). Malinga’s removal from the attack has bettered Australia’s scoring for sure.
2/85 in the 23rd
3:50pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:50pm | Report comment
Another change in bowling as Thisara Perera has now come in to replace Mathews. Three different bowlers have bowled the last three overs from this end.
2/77 in 22.2
3:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:49pm | Report comment
Three from the Herath over. Australia trudge along to 2/75 in 22.
The pair have added 38 so far, so wouldn’t now want to give up on it.
3:52pm
jameswm said | 3:52pm | Report comment
How many is Bailey, and off how many?
3:53pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:53pm | Report comment
15 from 33.
3:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:46pm | Report comment
Breaking news from the Australian Open 2013!
Serena Williams has crashed out of the tournament, losing to the little-known Sloane Stephens in the quarter-finals.
3:48pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 3:48pm | Report comment
Good. Never liked Serena.
3:45pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:45pm | Report comment
Driven down the ground for a four now. It was right in his slot and hit on the up, through mid-off to the fence. Pulls the next one to deep square-leg for a single.
10 off that Mathews over.
2/72 in 21.
3:43pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:43pm | Report comment
Stumps are hit and the bails not dislodged!
Wow! A pull attempted, hits hit boot and it rolls back at some pace but the bails stay stagnant on the stumps. Sri Lanka will think they have been robbed of a wicket here.
3:59pm
Red Kev said | 3:59pm | Report comment
Pretty lucky for Hughes, I think he’ll make the most of that.
3:42pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:42pm | Report comment
Malinga, 0/3 in 3 has now been replaced by Angelo Mathews. A couple of runs through the covers.
2/64 in the 21st.
3:41pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:41pm | Report comment
This is not a treacherous track. There is no spin. There is no swing. There is no seam. Or barely negligible movement anyway.
And Herath has just sent down the sixth maiden of the innings…out of 20 that have been bowled.
2/62 in 20.
3:44pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 3:44pm | Report comment
It is diffidence, pure and simple. They’ve been told how poor they are so many times that they have started to believe it. And now the myth is self-perpetuating.
3:47pm
jameswm said | 3:47pm | Report comment
Sorry Rob, these guys are pros and should have more self-confidence than that.
More likley they’re all playing for their spot.
3:53pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 3:53pm | Report comment
They’re all playing for their spot because they’ve got no confidence! They may be pros, but so were the English cricket team of the nineties. That’s where we’re going if we don’t fix our attitudes fast.
3:58pm
Red Kev said | 3:58pm | Report comment
That is not the public’s fault – that is the fault of the absurd NSP messing around with the team continually.
4:08pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 4:08pm | Report comment
We’re culpable too. We keep reinforcing a negative message. What you say on this forum gets read by somebody else, and helps to form the opinion of someone else who talks about it in an office, which then spreads to the afternoon beer run… Butterflies and hurricanes, RK.
Henry Ford (?) once said ‘whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.’. I always thought it to be a rather glib maxim, but I reckon you could apply it to the Aussie team. We need to stop telling them that they can’t and start telling them that they can.
By all means, criticise, just stop the bloody moping.
4:11pm
Red Kev said | 4:11pm | Report comment
So everything is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?
No.
The bowlnig injury rate is a problem and the more they listen to the sports science people the worse it will get.
Rotation is a farce.
The running between wickets is very poor, especially from Hughes and Bailey.
The search for an allrounder is wasteful – bits and pieces cricketers aren’t good enough, pick genuinely good players and the team might playing genuinely well – Henriques, Maxwell, Smith are not international standard.
You can call it criticism, I call it reality – she’s a hard bitch, suck it up.
4:17pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 4:17pm | Report comment
Why do you like to strawman so much, RK? I never said everything is wonderful. I said things are bad and getting worse and that it is at least partly our fault.
Criticism is fine, didn’t I say that? I’m sure I said that. Look at the last line of my last post, can you read that, RK?
Criticism is useful. But we don’t just criticise, we mope. That has got to stop.
4:19pm
jameswm said | 4:19pm | Report comment
Nah Kev the more they listen to the WRONG sports science people the worse it will get. The right people can fix it, but they’re not the ones advising the team.
5:19pm
Red Kev said | 5:19pm | Report comment
No one is moping but you Rob
3:39pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:39pm | Report comment
Rangana Herath has come into the attack. Bowling from round the stumps to Hughes, who is itching to go down the track.
3:38pm
Jason said | 3:38pm | Report comment
Next time someone talks about Bailey for the test side can they please have a look at video of him trying to bat against Malinga.
3:38pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:38pm | Report comment
And would you believe it…that is the fifth maiden of the innings. Bailey fails to get Malinga away throughout that over and Australia remain at 2/62 in 19.
3:37pm
Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam said | 3:37pm | Report comment
What is the point commenting about One Day cricket, which sadly is the not the true form of the game, and based on this is view, it is only Test Match cricket that matters. One Day cricket is just based on entertainment as the cost of the true form of the game. The Indian Premier League and the BCCI, which dominates the ICC, the governing body for international cricket is only basing all its eggs in regard to revenue. That tis why all the Sub continental cricket teams, including Sri Lanka are very poor in Test Match cricket, especially in overseas conditions, as proven in the reason Test Match series, which was completed and the last summer when the Indian cricket team proved how poor they are overseas, especially when they have to content with bounce, and pace.
The day BBCI along with the ICC puts its money where its month lies, and that should be in Test Match cricket. That is when we cricket lovers of the genuine game can hopefully smile again. Otherwise once again the revenue factor has dominated and destroyed a genuinely fine game of cricket significantly. This is my candid view.
A good example is patrons do not attend Test Match cricket that much, as in the past in terms of numbers, except the limited over contests, twenty or fifty over cricket. This is a shame and if the old establishments, especially the MCC do not recognise this fact and do something to redress this position, Test Match cricket may very well die a slow and most unfortunate death.
3:35pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:35pm | Report comment
Yorkers seem to be coming out of Malinga’s hands more consistently now. Full, swinging in but not too pacy and Bailey has been able to see them out.
2/62 in 18.3
3:29pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:29pm | Report comment
The pressure was building on these two batsmen with only 12 coming off the last five overs. Finally, he gets one on the up but outside the off and he is able to guide it through covers for a four!
2/60 in the 18th.
3:28pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:28pm | Report comment
After a single off the first five deliveries, Malinga fires his first in-swinging yorker…a toe-crusher that almost takes gets him a wicket! But swinging down the leg-side and given not-out.
On replays, it is seen it hit the inside-edge of the bat before hitting the boot.
2/56 in 17.
3:21pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:21pm | Report comment
Another appeal for lbw and caught-behind, both in one and not-out on both counts. Bailey has had a couple of decent shouts against him.
3:20pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:20pm | Report comment
And just as I said that the runs had dried up, Bailey gets one that is angling in and flicks it, almost Ricky Ponting style, over mid-wicket and for a four!
2/53 in the 16th
3:19pm
Red Kev said | 3:19pm | Report comment
Oh dear, the radio commentators are talking up Brad Hodge for the test side. Can we have a ban on idiocy from commentators?
3:25pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 3:25pm | Report comment
“Can we have a ban on idiocy from commentators?”
That ship sailed many years ago…
3:28pm
boes said | 3:28pm | Report comment
Yeah I heard Geeves – he also scoffed a Henriques as at test player, so redeemed himself somewhat.
3:19pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:19pm | Report comment
Just a couple of runs to fine third-man for Hughes…otherwise, he was looking to suss out the Malinga bowling.
2/49 in 15. Runs have dried up dramatically in recent times.
3:16pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 3:16pm | Report comment
Healey and Slater have made the observation that the Aussie batsmen have gotten themselves into trouble by playing tentative shots on what looks like a belter of a wicket. You’d have to agree with that. The Aussie batsmen are low on confidence.
Well, I have felt for a while now that we as a community are responsible for this. The Aussie team is only reflecting our own attitudes; arrogance to the point of bravado when things are going well, and caustically diffident the minute things start to get a bit tough. After all, they’re just Australians; they get their groceries from the same supermarkets, their children go to the same schools, and their partners read the same newspapers as us.
As a nation, we need to change our message. I don’t necessarily think that the remedy is to be constantly positive even when the performance is bad, but we should at least be moderating our praise and criticism to make sure that it is analytical rather than hysterical. We don’t have to be inferior. We’re better than this.
3:32pm
Jason said | 3:32pm | Report comment
I’m not.
3:38pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 3:38pm | Report comment
Not what…?
3:50pm
Jason said | 3:50pm | Report comment
Better than this.
3:57pm
Red Kev said | 3:57pm | Report comment
I don’t think your statements hold any water. Ask any player and they will tell you they don’t read the press. Discussion on the internet certainly would not influence players. Respected former players might influence players, but not sites like The Roar. The majority of the media criticism is directed at the selectors not that individual players. Most former players are disgustingly cheerleader-like about players in the national side. The exceptions are Ian Chappell and Mark Taylor when discussing Usman Khawaja, both are outwardly critical of him in a manner that they aren’t of any other Australian player. At the moment that makes no difference as he isn’t in the side.
4:28pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 4:28pm | Report comment
Well I don’t agree, RK. The players cannot completely cut themselves off from the national mood. Even if they don’t read the press, they can’t avoid people who do. And those people know what the national mood is. Even if they don’t state it explicitly, they convey it in their body language or attitude. Players absolutely know what the general public thinks of them, even if they don’t read papers.
3:15pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:15pm | Report comment
And now it is Lasith Malinga who takes over from Kulasekara. He does not require too much help from the conditions usually, so this should be interesting.
3:14pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:14pm | Report comment
Loud, loud appeal for an lbw but given not-out. Umpire has another think and this time rules in favour of the batsman. The fielding team has a think before deciding against the review.
2/47 in 14. Mathews concedes only a single off his first.
3:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:10pm | Report comment
Five runs off the Kulasekara over before Angelo Mathews takes over from Dilshan.
2/46 in 13
3:06pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:06pm | Report comment
And now we have a fourth maiden of the innings from Kulasekara! And it has been bowled to Bailey, who becomes the fourth batsman this innings to play out six dots in an over!
2/41 in 12.
3:05pm
Matt said | 3:05pm | Report comment
Anyone else watching this on Cricket Live? My screen is flickering every now and then with random colours, anyone elses?
3:08pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 3:08pm | Report comment
It’s a one-dayer, not a Test match – the players ARE wearing colours…
3:02pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:02pm | Report comment
Captain George Bailey at four has a couple of runs off successive deliveries. Hughes is slightly more tentative after his three successive failures and looks like he is more intent on survival for now.
Four singles in the Dilshan over.
2/41 in 11
2:58pm
Matt said | 2:58pm | Report comment
Just turned it on, 2/37, is this another “here we go again?”
2:57pm
Jason said | 2:57pm | Report comment
Will they ever learn?
If you have to ask your batting partner whether you should review you probably shouldn’t.
Sri Lanka will appeal with impunity now.
3:00pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 3:00pm | Report comment
Well put, if batsmen have to ask their non-strikers, it means they are probably taking a chance with their review. And that the decision will continue to favour the fielding side. Bad review.
3:06pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 3:06pm | Report comment
I’d actually go further – if you have to think about it, then don’t go for a review.
2:56pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:56pm | Report comment
Given him, lbw! Wade’s gone for a review!
There was another appeal for an lbw earlier this over but that was pitching outside the leg-stump. This one is on the middle-stump and Wade wants to cut it through the covers but his bat is a million miles away and it hits the front pad first. Loud appeal follows from Kula and the umpire, after a bit of a thought, gives Wade out.
Wade goes for the review but there is no way that was not hitting the stumps. Australia have lost their second wicket and their only review. Again, a poor decision to review it, especially when Wade would have known that it hit his pads first.
2/37 in 10.
2:58pm
Matt F said | 2:58pm | Report comment
Another wasted review. They just don’t learn
2:58pm
Kelvaan said | 2:58pm | Report comment
Another wasted review. If Hughes didn’t see that was plumb, he should be going to the optometrist.
2:53pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:53pm | Report comment
Dilshan has just bowled his third maiden of his five-over spell! What’s more interesting, he has bowled that to Hughes, which means that all his maidens have been to different batsmen.
1/35 in 9 pulls their run-rate down below four.
2:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:49pm | Report comment
Three good, tight, stump-to-stump deliveries from Kulasekara and Hughes is currently is defending it well….
…cuts the fourth ball to third-man for a single.
1/32 in 7.4
2:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:46pm | Report comment
Phil Hughes, with seven runs from his last three games, bats at three. Pushes to mid-on for a quickly taken single and he is away.
1/32 in 7.
2:44pm
Jason said | 2:44pm | Report comment
That was inept by Warner. He is going to be crucified in India if that is how he plays spin.
2:49pm
Rob from Brumby Country said | 2:49pm | Report comment
Agreed. Terrible footwork, terrible shot selection. That ball should have been swept or advanced on.
2:53pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:53pm | Report comment
The feeling I get is that they are treating Dilshan with far too much respect…as if he was Muthiah Muralitharan.
2:54pm
punter said | 2:54pm | Report comment
terrible but the partnership seems to be alot more efficient. Wade opening makes sense
2:44pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:44pm | Report comment
And whoa, what do we have here, Warner’s bowled!
After two successive maidens, it seemed like Australia had got the measure of Dilshan but this one just went through Warner and bowled him! It was from round the stumps, but not too much turn away, just a bit of a straighter one and Warner misses the line.
Bit of a soft wicket I think.
1/31 in the 7th over.
2:48pm
Matt said | 2:48pm | Report comment
That’s the story of Warner – he gets genuinely out 1/10, the other 9/10 it’s something stupid.
2:50pm
Hazey the Bear said | 2:50pm | Report comment
Warner played it as though it wasn’t going to turn that sharply. The delivery probably was better than it looked, but the look of surprise on Warner’s face seems to indicate it was very unexpected. Probably didn’t think the pitch had that kind of movement.
2:43pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:43pm | Report comment
And now Warner has hit Dilshan inside-out for another four! It was flighted, slightly as well, but Warner smacked it over the covers for a four. Timed it well, almost for a six!
0/31 in the seventh
2:42pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:42pm | Report comment
Not too much from Kulasekara and Warner is able to tuck it to the leg-side for a couple of runs before tapping it there for a single.
And the Wade goes down the track to smash it back over the bowler’s head and the umpire has to evade it quickly before he gets up to signal the boundary!
0/27 in 6.
2:37pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:37pm | Report comment
Finally some runs off Dilshan…in fact it goes to the fence for a four!
Wade was shimming down the track which made Dilshan drop it short and he then went back to place it through the backward point for a four.
Follows it up with a very nice glance down the leg-side for another four! Two boundaries off Dilshan for Wade.
0/20 in the 5th.
2:40pm
Hazey the Bear said | 2:40pm | Report comment
I like what Wade has done – He’s taken his time adjusting to Dilshan and then played two delightful strokes for boundaries – not too hard, just nicely timed and placed.
And as I write this, he’s just smashed Kula back down the ground with authority…
2:35pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:35pm | Report comment
Seven from Kulasekara’s second over takes Australia to 0/12 in 4.
All 12 have been scored off Australia’s nemesis from the last couple of games, which will do their confidence good.
2:33pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:33pm | Report comment
No movement on the pitch and already Kulasekara is beginning to change his pace down. A slower one that is tapped to the leg-side for a single.
0/10 in the 4th.
2:32pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:32pm | Report comment
But Wade’s gone over the mid-on region and for a four. Short-arm jab, not the fullest of follow-throughs and gone to the fence.
0/9 in the fourth.
2:31pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:31pm | Report comment
Dilshan’s looked innocuous and both batsmen have yet to score off him. Six balls faced by both Warner and Wade and not a run so far.
Two maidens in a row from Dilshan.
0/5 in 3.
2:28pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:28pm | Report comment
Nearly a run-out!
Wade crunched it through the extra-cover and he thought it was through. But a good effort from Perera at wide mid-off, sees him almost throw down the non-striker’s stumps with Warner out of his crease.
They thought it was an easy two but a direct hit would have been bye-bye Warner.
0/5 in 2.
2:26pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:26pm | Report comment
Nuwan Kulasekara will take the “second” new ball for Sri Lanka. This will be interesting because there may not be too much assistance in the track…the sense is that Australia will take him on under better batting conditions.
Warner’s away first ball.
0/1 in 1.2
2:24pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:24pm | Report comment
A bit of nerves I am sure from Matthew Wade, re-assigned to this opening slot. Pats out six deliveries without getting a run.
Maiden over to begin with from Dilshan!
0/0 in 1
2:22pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:22pm | Report comment
And after electing to field first, Sri Lanka will open their bowling with T Dilshan. No, he hasn’t turned in to a swing bowler overnight. He bowls off-spin as always!
0/0 in 0.1
2:21pm
Red Kev said | 2:21pm | Report comment
Ed Cowan acquitting himself well on the radio. I particularly liked his allusion to firing all the sports science rotation boffins if nothing improves in the next 12 months.
2:21pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:21pm | Report comment
The openers are out in the middle for Australia and the Sri Lankan team also makes their way out after their customary huddle.
Change at the top of the order for the home team with Dave Warner opening the innings with Matthew Wade.
Perfect, clear blue skies, so we should have a full game.
2:14pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:14pm | Report comment
This series has some resemblance to the one between South Africa and New Zealand. Tourists New Zealand stunned South Africa in the second ODI yesterday to win their three-match series.
That, after losing the Test matches 2-0 to South Africa and falling prey to some woeful batting!
2:12pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 2:12pm | Report comment
So I see we’ve decided to go in with three specialist batsmen.
Dear God in heaven…
2:19pm
Old Creeker said | 2:19pm | Report comment
I think that’s just proved how ‘seriously’ this series is being taken by the NSP…
2:22pm
boes said | 2:22pm | Report comment
Warner, Hughes, D Hussey, Bailey…
2:51pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 2:51pm | Report comment
Hussey’s an all-rounder.
3:08pm
jameswm said | 3:08pm | Report comment
No he’s not, he’s a batsman who bowls tidy offies. He’s as much of an all rounder as Clarke is.
3:15pm
boes said | 3:15pm | Report comment
yep, have to agree with that jameswm
3:23pm
Christo the Daddyo said | 3:23pm | Report comment
His profile on cricinfo says all-rounder. Must admit I was surprised – personally I agree with you.
2:08pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:08pm | Report comment
With Michael Clarke out with a ankle sprain, it is Glenn Maxwell who takes his place in the starting line-up and George Bailey will take over captaincy duties.
Sri Lanka have made no change to their playing 11.
2:06pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 2:06pm | Report comment
Hello everyone, welcome to the live coverage of the final ODI with Australia needing to win this one to level the series.
Australia have been sent in to bat, which means they will be batting first for the fifth time this series.
1:56pm
Tristan Rayner said | 1:56pm | Report comment
Clarke won’t be playing – Sri Lanka will field after winning the toss – hoping to skittle Australia cheaply again.
2:05pm
Red Kev said | 2:05pm | Report comment
Winning the toss and bowling – nice mind games from Jayawardene there.
So Warner-Hughes or are they resurrecting the Warner-Wade combo?